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California Is the End of the Frontier

from the vault, originally published winter 2022

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Katherine Dee
Dec 03, 2022
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If California is the end of the frontier, then Florida is the beginning of it.

When Silicon Valley hit up against the boundaries of California’s sprawling potential, once imagined as infinite—when the West Coast finally declared to them that there is nowhere else to go, there is nothing left to extract—they headed back East, and started the cycle of expl…

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